The Lantern Keeper’s Promise by Alix James
When the lantern fails, the covenant calls its debt.
Elizabeth Bennet has lost nearly everything—her father, her eldest sister to the sea, and any future she once imagined for herself. When a centuries-old trust names her steward of Blackscar Lantern, a remote lighthouse on the Northumberland coast, she accepts the post for the only reason left to her: it is a purpose, and purpose is what she has instead of hope.
She expects solitude. She finds a keeper.
Fitzwilliam Darcy has tended the light for five years, alone, under a name that is not the whole truth. Proud, exacting, and bound to the tower by a debt he will not speak of, he has no use for a steward—least of all one who questions his methods, ignores his authority, and refuses to be frightened by the dark.
But the flame knows what they do not. And the ancient covenant written into the stones of Blackscar demands something neither of them is prepared to give.
When Darcy is called away, and the lantern begins to fail, Elizabeth must hold the light alone—against the winter, against the men who would see the trust dissolved, and against the growing certainty that the man she has come to need is not coming back.
A Regency romantasy of love, loss, and light—where the sea keeps its secrets, the flame answers only to faith, and two people must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to keep a promise older than memory.
Table of Contents
Author’s Note
1. Chapter One
2. Chapter Two
3. Chapter Three
4. Chapter Four
5. Chapter Five
6. Chapter Six
7. Chapter Seven
8. Chapter Eight
9. Chapter Nine
10. Chapter Ten
11. Chapter Eleven
12. Chapter Twelve
13. Chapter Thirteen
14. Chapter Fourteen
15. Chapter Fifteen
16. Chapter Sixteen
17. Chapter Seventeen
18. Chapter Eighteen
19. Chapter Nineteen
20. Chapter Twenty
21. Chapter Twenty-One
22. Chapter Twenty-Two
23. Chapter Twenty-Three
24. Chapter Twenty-Four
25. Chapter Twenty-Five
26. Chapter Twenty-Six
27. Chapter Twenty-Seven
28. Chapter Twenty-Eight
29. Chapter Twenty-Nine
30. Chapter Thirty
31. Chapter Thirty-One
32. Chapter Thirty-Two
33. Chapter Thirty-Three
34. Chapter Thirty-Four
35. Chapter Thirty-Five
36. Chapter Thirty-Six
37. Chapter Thirty-Seven
38. Chapter Thirty-Eight
39. Chapter Thirty-Nine
40. Chapter Forty
41. Chapter Forty-One
42. Chapter Forty-Two
43. Chapter Forty-Three
44. Chapter Forty-Four
45. Chapter Forty-Five
46. Chapter Forty-Six
47. Chapter Forty-Seven
48. Chapter Forty-Eight
49. Chapter Forty-Nine
50. Epilogue
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